Ann Lee

Senior Fellow, Demos

Ann Lee is a former investment banker, hedge fund partner and is a frequent media commentator on economic issues. In addition to television and radio appearances on Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC and NPR, her op-eds have appeared in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Forbes, and Worth. Ms. Lee is also an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University and a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. While she was teaching at Peking University, she also acted as an economic advisor to Chinese economic officials as well as to several large Chinese asset management firms. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and Harvard Business School.

Events with this presenter

China’s economy is the second largest in the world and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020.
Rather than viewing China’s power and influence as a threat, Ann Lee, a senior fellow at Demos focusing on issues of global
economics and finance, asks: What can America learn from its competition? Read More ››